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At the height of my start up years, I was doing a 60-mile-each-way daily
commute on more or less standard working hours, then was online from
home for another six hours or so with my overseas staff. There is a
certain "start up warrior" braggadocio that - along with the visions of
IPO stock options dancing in your head - provides enough adrenaline to
make that kind of workday routine doable, but after one or two good
start up cash outs and a half dozen belly flops, the juice just doesn't
flow as easily as it used to.

Gene Kim-Eng

On 9/19/2014 12:17 PM, Kathleen MacDowell wrote:

I didn't get the impression anyone was bragging, but I was impressed by the
fortitude some people display.